Welcome to Vice Presidential Debate Night! Or as we like to call it, Night of the No. 2′s!!…..wait that doesn’t sound right.

Anyways, to be prepped for a championship fight, you’ve got to have a great sparring partner. And few debates were more eagerly anticipated — or watched — than the 2008 Vice Presidential Debate between then-Sen. Joe Biden and then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Who — other than Tina Fey — could possibly prepare Biden for the Mama Grizzly? The task fell to former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, now a UC-Berkeley visiting professor and host of Current TV’s nightly “The War Room” political chat show that is filmed here in lovely San Francisco. (Granholm and her family now live across the Bay in Oakland.) Check out our story about Granholm’s time as Palin here.

After spending weeks prepping for her “role” as Palin, Granholm said she thought her former fellow guv ““She did a great job at that debate, especially what she was dealing with leading up to that debate,” aka Palin’s disastrous and much-mocked interviews with Katie Couric.

We caught up with Granholm for our story Thursday — and of course brought the San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.com’s Shaky Hands Productions video crew along for a quick chat: